Gaudavaho

Author(s): Vakpatiraj, Narhari Govind Suru, P L Vaidya, A N Upadhye, H C Bhayani
Publisher: Prakrit Text Society Ahmedabad

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Gajidavaho
... 270.. अग्धंति – शोभन्ते (Com)-'Appear charming'. दरविणईषदून (पीडित)- Slightly troubled' (with heat). . .. .
273. खल ... वाहिणो - खलचूर्णित-कलमामोदवाहिनः – 'carrying the fragrance of paddy (PH) being pounded on threshing floors (खल).
Cf. संपन्नशालिनिचयावतभूतलानि ........स्वस्थस्थितप्रचुरगोकुलशोभितानि । ...... सै: ससारसकुलैः प्रतिनादितानि
सीमान्तराणि जनयन्ति नृणां प्रमोदम् ।। ऋतु० III.16 - 274. गोहण-देस – गोधनविनिवेशोद्देश- The places of cattle-farms.
275. अक्कंत...जहणं- आक्रान्तकरीषोष्म सुखनिष्कंपजघनं - Their hinderends (EU) not shivering with cold, as they are happy with the warmth (उष्मा) of dry cow-dung cakes, which has enveloped (अक्कंत) them. रोहिणीजूहं - रोहिणीयूथं - गोमण्डलम् (Com.)- A herd of red cows. ___276. सोणंकमुद्देसं - शोणाख्यनदाङ्कितं प्रदेशम् (Com.).
Sona-Nada is the name of a 'male' river rising in Gondavana and falling into the Ganges near Pā taliputra. ___278. आहारलेहासु - जलाधारलेखासु - On the border-lines of water-reservoirs.
279. णिसम्मइ - निशाम्यति, निषीदति, विश्राम्यति - Com. - "Rests happily'. आ - आसमन्तात्. - Com. Allround'. * In a Kulaka of 5 Gāthās ( 280-284), the Poet describes the Vindhya mountain where the King has come up in the course of his march.
280. The Poet imagines that the sun's chariot, to which are yoked seven horses, ascends the heights of the Vindhya mountain somehow with difficulty. In the process of climbing up, the yoke of the chariot is tilted upward and as it falls upon the shoulders of the horses, the mane is pushed upward by the yoke receding backward (हसमाण - हसता, पश्चाद्भागं पतता Com. ).
281. To those who stand outside the caves of the Vindhyas, the sky is not perceptible. What they see are the mountain-ranges and ridges all round and hence their impression that the sky does